The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-17
LABOR AND ITS TROUBLES
THE INITIAL STEP FOR A LOCKOUT
AT CHICAGO.

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A Contractor Informs His Men chat
1t is "Ten Hours or Nothing" Car
penters and Bricklayers Confident
Boston's Brewers - Fall Rivers
Weavers Return to Work.
CHICAGO, ILL.,, May 16--The initial step
in securing a complete lockout of all carpen-
ters was taken to-day by a contractor who
informed his men that hereafter it was ten
hours work or nothing. The carpenters
were unalded in stopping work, Their re-
turn to ten hours day was dis
c,issed in recent meeting of
the Master Carpenters Association,
but was finally laid upon the table. The
present state of affairs shuts out all car
penters at work upon brick or stone build
ings, but does not affect those at work on
frame buildings. Hence, the only way to
secure complete lockout of those laborers
is to demand return to the long day.
MATERIAL SUPPLIES MEMS LEAGUE.
The material supplies men are now thor
oughly banded together, and represent a
combination that alone would cause lock-
out
The brickyards will shut down Wednesday
and remain closed until the existing diff
culties are S1noothed over.
Tile manufactures will follow suit.
At the headquarters of the bricklayers'
association this morning it was stated that
many of the workmon have returned to
work, employers showing disposition TO
give way upon the pay day question. The
leaders of the union express themselves as
being satisfied with the present aspect of
affairs.
BREWERS QUIT WORK.
BOSTON, MASS, May 16.-Twenty-five
brewers left Eoughton's brewery this morn
ing in sympathy with the strikers at Roes-
sles, who left Friday. There are seventy
six men employed at this brewery. From
Burkhardt's brewery, which employs about
sixty men, fifteen struck to-day. These are
the only accessions to the brewers strike
that have been made to-day.
The men who struck at Roessle's want
shorter hours and more pay. II was stated
by a striker that some 800 barrels of beer
are about to arrive in Boston to be sold by
the strikers.
END OF A BIG STRIKE.
DETROIT, May 16.-The end of the big
stove mOlders' strike is near. 1t had been
announced by the Manufacturers Defense
Association that as soon as the strikers re-
turned to work in St Louis the whole
trouble would be settled. Bridge & Beach
of st. Louis, have been engaging new men,
and private advices state that they now only
lack twenty men, and that very short time
will elapse before all the stove factories in
the country are at work again.
wEAvERs RETURN TO WORK.
FALL RIVER, MASS, May 16.-The
struck for more pay last week, returned to
work this morning in body. A com
promise was effected by an advance of &c.
per cut.
PROVED A FAILURE.
BALTIMORE, Nd, May 16.-The general
strike of brewers employees, which was APP
pointed to begin at noon to-day, proved a
failure. In all only nineteen men are
known to have left their places Of employ
ment. In various departments there are
from / 200 to 1,500 men employed in the
breweries of this city.
THE STRIKES IN NOVA SCOTIA.
HALIFAX, N. s., May 16.--The long
strike at the Pictou coal mines is reported
to be at an end The Albion colliery men
have accepted reduction. The Acadia
men have signed an agreement repudiating
any desire to dictate who shall be employed.
A DISTRICT ASSEMBLY SUSPENDED.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, May 16.-The Cen
eral Executive Board OF the Knights OF La
Dor tonight suspended District Assembly
No 126 from the order on the ground of in
subordination The District Assembly is a
national one and includes in its membership
over 10, 900 people, who are engaged in the
carpet weaving trade. There has been con-
siderable trouble between the District and
the General Executive Board, and one OF
the most notable instances was the struggle
TO admit John Morrison, Master Workman
of the District Assembly, at the convention
recently held at Richmond.